I'm used to my normal healthy body from before working in a way in which when I am exerting muscle effort, like holding something, instead of gradually failing, doing the shaking thing, muscles just fail outright. I never noticed this until recently, but since I did it's really remarkable.
There is no gradual loss of function, it just snaps off. It happens quickly, too, but it's how sudden the loss is that is odd, how it's unlike how it used to be when I could function normally.
My main exercise for years has been one-legged exercises, where I just move the other around. I've become very good at it, and the difference between when I can use my muscles close to normally, and when my energy is too low to hold on more than a few seconds, is really shocking. It's the difference between someone with significant experience doing similar moves, like ballet or martial arts, and someone who hasn't exercised in years, and never exercises similar to this. Just untrained Bambi legs. Except I have been exercising this for years, I have become proficient enough at it that it's very noticeable, though not always.
My ability to use it varies a lot, to the point where the loss of function erases all the skills gains. My leg muscles are really showing it, they're visibly trained. And yet I cannot do any more of it over two years of daily training with about 98% compliance. Whenever I do those exercises, after a few seconds my trained muscles just suddenly give out. Sometimes it's barely a few seconds. At my best I can do the same exercises with the control of a kung fu master for 20-30 seconds. Never more than that, and everything in-between. It's so damn weird.
There is no gradual loss of function, it just snaps off. It happens quickly, too, but it's how sudden the loss is that is odd, how it's unlike how it used to be when I could function normally.
My main exercise for years has been one-legged exercises, where I just move the other around. I've become very good at it, and the difference between when I can use my muscles close to normally, and when my energy is too low to hold on more than a few seconds, is really shocking. It's the difference between someone with significant experience doing similar moves, like ballet or martial arts, and someone who hasn't exercised in years, and never exercises similar to this. Just untrained Bambi legs. Except I have been exercising this for years, I have become proficient enough at it that it's very noticeable, though not always.
My ability to use it varies a lot, to the point where the loss of function erases all the skills gains. My leg muscles are really showing it, they're visibly trained. And yet I cannot do any more of it over two years of daily training with about 98% compliance. Whenever I do those exercises, after a few seconds my trained muscles just suddenly give out. Sometimes it's barely a few seconds. At my best I can do the same exercises with the control of a kung fu master for 20-30 seconds. Never more than that, and everything in-between. It's so damn weird.
